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Everyman

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western […]

Everyman

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western […]

Everyman

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western […]

Story Telling and Victorian Collections

Victorian Collections is a free, online cataloguing system especially created for small museums in Victoria. This workshop offers a full day of training, beginning with basic collection management. By the […]

The war on our doorstep Australians in New Guinea 1943-45

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese […]

‘Doing her bit’: Girls’ wartime adventures

Girls‚Äô fiction published in England, the United States, Canada and Australia during and immediately after World War I reflects a patriotic fervour that extols imperialist greatness and international allegiances alongside […]

World War One: A history in 100 stories

Join us for the launch of a significant social history book, and a lecture by Professor Jay Winter. This Remembrance Day, World War One: A history in 100 stories, written […]

The war on our doorstep Australians in New Guinea 1943-45

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese […]

The Art of Survival: Drawings by Fred Ransome Smith, POW

Fred Ransome Smith, imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War, used art to document his captivity. Decades later he returned to this art to release and share wartime […]

Fort Queenscliff Museum School Holiday Tours

Fort Queenscliff Museum King Street, Queenscliff, Australia

Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort. Fort Queenscliff is one of Victoria's most important heritage sites and one of the largest and best preserved […]

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